Eurogamer - Nintendo's new online service looks like it could be every bit as bad as you feared

[DonFerrari]

Pemalite said:

DonFerrari said:

I preffer battery kit and a secondary controller (sure the battery could be removable and just need it to recharge) and I don't bother with the charging cable even though I could swap controllers... but sure there is value on the quick way on Xbox.

Well. Microsoft could bundle a play and charge kit with every controller. That would be awesome, but still retain AA battery compatability, then it can make both camps happy, but I guess money/greed gets in the way of that.

It's also better for retro gamers, you know you can use the controller wirelessly in 20 years time as battery's sadly don't last forever.

Hiku said:

The problem with Xbox's solution for me is that they don't include a charger. So you have to buy an AA charger separately if you don't have one. Or buy new AA batteries every time, but I'd rather not do that.
That said, I think PS4 controllers battery doesn't last long enough before it needs to be recharged.

Indeed. That is the caveat. But to be able to hot swap batterys is still great in my eyes, no cables, no charge time, just swap and go.
I have a seperate AA battery charger, so once I swap the battery's out of my controller, they go onto charge, to be able to charge AA battery's while in the controller would be awesome, but I would assume they would eat into the controllers healthy profit margins.

There are Pro's and Con's to each approach, the irony is, it would be extremely *simple* to provide the best of both worlds, but no company does.

Regular battery and charger are standard so I can see their greadness not being a real issue, and on PS3/4 you can take some screws and change the battery so even though it isn't exaclty fantastic it's doable.